MUSIC

Music by Leoš Janácek | Libretto by Francesco Vincenc Cervinka
Sung in an English translation by Norman Tucker

Performed for the first time in BLO’s history, Janácek’s sweeping Kátya Kabanová is a juxtaposition of extraordinary beauty and fateful oppression. The opera paints a tragic portrait of provincial life in the story of a woman suffocated ...more

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Maroon 5

Multi platinum-selling and Grammy Award®-winning rock band, Maroon 5, revealed details for THE MAROON 5 WORLD TOUR 2015 in support of the band's fifth studio album, V. Produced by Live Nation, THE MAROON 5 WORLD TOUR 2015 will kick off at American Airlines Center in Dallas on Feb. 16, 2015 and will take the band to 27 cities throughout...

Beethoven's Language: Ineffable, Blissful, Struggle-Filled Humanity

Trio Cleonice and Friends examines Beethoven's extraordinarily multi-faceted language: from the impassioned, bravura Kreutzer Sonata to the distilled, intermezzo-like Op. 126 Bagatelles, to the heartbreaking lyricism of Adelaide. We'll round out the evening with a piano trio by one of Beethoven's most...

Los Lobos

Los Lobos were already East L.A. neighborhood legends, Sunset Strip regulars and a Grammy Award winning band (Best Mexican-American/Tejano Music Performance) by the time they recorded their major label debut How Will The Wolf Survive? in 1984.

Although the album’s name and title song were inspired by a National Geographic...

A Master Class with Organist CAMERON CARPENTER

A virtuoso composer-performer unique among keyboardists, and the first organist ever nominated for a GRAMMY® Award for a solo album, Cameron Carpenter is smashing the stereotypes of organists and the organ. His repertoire—from the complete works of J. S. Bach and Cesar Franck, to his hundreds of transcriptions of non-organ works, his...

Cameron Carpenter, organ

Juilliard-trained organist Cameron Carpenter’s goals are anything but modest: the brash, outspoken, and phenomenally talented musician and composer wants the organ recognized as a premier recital instrument on par with violins and pianos. Carpenter has energy and vision equal to his talent: his repertoire is perhaps the largest and most...

Open Mic Night at Starbucks

Join us for a casual evening of Open Mic music at Starbucks, 542 Main Street, Winchester. All ages, all instruments, and all types of acoustic music are welcome! Individual or small duo/trio performances are encouraged. Hosted by Winchester Community Music School and singer/songwriter Mike Verge. For more information, call 781-721-2950 or visit...

Ten Sonatas for Violin and Piano by Beethoven

Award Winning duo Ariadne Daskalakis, violin and Miri Yampolsky, piano with present the Ten Sonatas for Violin and Piano in 3 concerts, the first of which will be held at the Goethe Instit Boston. Experience the depth of Beethoven's Genius and Inspiration. This concert will feature Sonatas Nrs. 5, 8 and 10. Tickets available only at...

Award Winning duo Ariadne Daskalakis, violin and Miri Yampolsky, piano with present the Ten Sonatas for Violin and Piano in 3 concerts, the first of which will be held at the Goethe Instit Boston....more

Women Musicians Network 18th Annual Concert

Jazz, Latin, spoken word, funk, pop/R&B, rock, Balkan/jazz: Berklee women students, faculty, and their bands from around the world make the WMN show a high-powered and eclectic annual event. Special guests Melissa Ferrick, Helen Sherrah-Davies and Vessela Stoyanova add their flair to this exciting night of music, dance and poetry....

Six free concerts performed in the intimate and beautiful space of the Lindsey Chapel will feature each of Bach’s six sonatas and partitas for solo violin and viola (BWV 1001-1006) with soloists from the Emmanuel Music ensemble. For March 5th we will have Heather Braun, violin, performing Sonata No. 1 in G minor, BWV 1001.

An Evening with Gretchen Peters

"I get a lot of juice from the musicians in the room," says Gretchen Peters. In the case of her new album, Blackbirds, this is an understatement. Recorded in Nashville, Tennessee, the album features a who's who of modern American roots music: Jerry Douglas, Jason Isbell, Jimmy LaFave, Kim Richey, Suzy Bogguss, and more.

BMOP Performs Blizzard Voices Concert

Boston Modern Orchestra Project (BMOP), the nation’s premier orchestra dedicated exclusively to commissioning, performing, and recording new orchestral music, celebrates its continuing relationship with New England Conservatory and the Boston new music community in a concert titled Blizzard Voices. As the New England...

Wesley Stace’s Cabinet of Wonders

The NYC-based variety show, Wesley Stace’s Cabinet of Wonders is a favorite of fans and critics alike and has been hailed as “perpetually entertaining!” (New Yorker), “one of the most whip-smart variety shows” (Portland Mercury) and “a brilliant evening of...

Broadway On Highland

An open singing event! If you love Broadway musicals, come sing your favorite Broadway tune with our fabulous accompanist, or just sit in the audience and enjoy the sing-a-long numbers. All ages and ability levels are welcome, from beginners to seasoned professionals. Solo, duo, trio, or family act? Come on down. Just bring your sheet...

Old School

Composers throughout history have looked to their predecessors for training and a solid foundation, but also as points of departure for flights of inspiration. Michael Tippett is a perfect example, and his Fantasia Concertante takes Corelli to undreamt-of new places. Golijov, the ultimate musical omnivore, pulls upon musical traditions near and...

Justin Townes Earle

In the last five years, Justin Townes Earle has emerged as a genre-busting acclaimed singer-songwriter, infusing country, blues, folk and indie rock into his vintage Americana sound. As the son of beloved country folk rabble-rouser Steve Earle, Justin (his middle name Townes is in honor his father’s mentor and friend, the great Townes Van...

In the last five years, Justin Townes Earle has emerged as a genre-busting acclaimed singer-songwriter, infusing country, blues, folk and indie rock into his vintage Americana sound. As the son of...more

Red Baraat's Festival of Colors

Brooklyn-based Red Baraat has made a name for itself as one of the best live bands playing anywhere in the world. Led by Sunny Jain, the eight-piece party band, composed of dhol (double-sided barrel-shaped North Indian drum slung over one shoulder), drum set, percussion, sousaphone, and five horns, melds infectious North Indian bhangra...

Punch Brothers

With Punch Brothers, mandolin virtuoso Chris Thile (of pop-bluegrass band Nickel Creek) pioneered the pseudo-genre “chambergrass”—intricately composed music written for bluegrass instrumentation. In spite of (or perhaps due to) the fact that the band’s single “I Blew It Off” features drums, their upcoming...

Of All the Flowers: Song of the Middle Ages

The Boston Camerata (Anne Azéma, director)
The constantly evolving and inventive musical minds of Italian and French masters during the fourteenth century has left us with repertoires, both sacred and secular, that successfully unite the search for new and different creative paths with astonishing lyricism and sensual beauty. In...

Diagenesis Duo

In its first concert of 2015, Equilibrium Concert Series brings the Diagenesis Duo for an evening of invigorating new music. Diagenesis Duo formed when Heather Barnes, soprano, and Jennifer Bewerse, cello, met in July 2010, during the soundSCAPE performance and composition exchange in Maccagno, Italy. In their first three years as an...

Charles Dutoit conducts Szymanowski's King Roger

For his second week of concerts, Charles Dutoit leads the BSO in what is sure to be one of the season's most important events-the first BSO performances of Polish composer Karol Szymanowski's moving opera?King Roger. Set in 12th-century Sicily and loosely based on Euripides'?The Bacchae,?King Roger?has long been championed by...

Billy Childs Quartet

A tremendous jazz pianist with a seemingly boundless curiosity and adventurous spirit, Billy Childs plays and composes in a unique style that borrows heavily from the classical world, but still manages to be wholly his own.

Alloy Orchestra performs the Son of the Sheik

The world-renowned Alloy Orchestra presents the Boston premiere of its live musical score to the 1926 classic silent film The Son of the Sheik, directed by George Fitzmaurice and starring Rudolph Valentino, Vilma Bánky, and George Fawcett. Valentino died suddenly just as the film was being released, unleashing an outpouring of love...

Handel’s Israel in Egypt

Composed for orchestra, soloists and double chorus, George Frideric Handel’s tour-de-force oratorio is heralded for its incredible depiction of plagues of locusts, boils, and frogs; the crossing of the Red Sea; and songs of praise and rejoicing. The Chorale is pleased to join forces with The Zamir Chorale (Joshua Jacobson, Artistic...

Oran Etkin's A Gathering Light

Award-winning clarinetist/saxophonist Oran Etkin and his Ensemble will present A Gathering Light, a concert inspired by kabbalistic texts that draws on the rich musical traditions of Israel, New Orleans and Africa.

The Barra MacNeils: A Celtic Celebration at Chevalier

Medford’s Chevalier Theatre will celebrate its 75th anniversary with a concert of traditional Celtic music by the Barra MacNeils, one of Canada’s most popular and successful musical groups.A family ensemble from Cape Breton Island, Nova Scotia, the Barra MacNeils are widely regarded as one of the finest live concert acts in the...

Kids' Shows: Little Groove

Come to the Coolidge Corner Theatre for a real interactive music experience with your child. The show is designed for children 8 and under. Children will have fun using real instruments such as drums, shakers, and tambourines. Children will also interact with puppets, bubbles, balls, pom poms, and parachutes! Children will enjoy being a...

Lady Lamb the Beekeeper

Maine native Aly Spaltro, a.k.a. Lady Lamb the Beekeeper, has always written in emphatic, colorful strokes, at once direct and inventive. “Billions of Eyes,” the lead single off of her upcoming album, “After,” tightens up her sprawling, songwriterly impulses even as it threatens to burst at the seams.

Concord Band Winter Concert: Portraits

Boston radio personality Jordan Rich of WBZ will join the Concord Band for its Winter Concert on March 7, 2015. The theme is Portraits, and Rich will narrate Aaron Copland’s Lincoln Portrait and W. Francis McBeth’s Of Sailors and Whales, a portrait of various...

Caribbean Festival

Providing an antidote to winter, The Friends of the JP Branch Library present Kathleen Gaskin-Holland who will bring authentic Trinidadian cooking, costumes, music and dance to the Jamaica Plain Branch Library. The events will feature Kathleen's troupe of carnival dancers and Charles Sarjent on the steel drum. Come sample some...

Winter Chamber Concerts

In our stress-filled lives, how do we carve out time for peace and reflection? When was the last time you fully experienced beauty? Join us for an evening chamber concert with Gloriae Dei Cantores at the Church of the Transfiguration in Orleans, March 6 & 7, as the critically acclaimed choir presents early Renaissance music by...

ArtsEmerson Concerts Presents

ArtsEmerson is proud to announce a second weekend of Boston area performers appearing in The Jackie Liebergott Black Box Theatre, located in the Paramount Center, the weekend of March 6th and 7th. This weekend of concerts will provide music lovers with a fantastic opportunity to see some of the best music around in a beautiful building rich...

ArtsEmerson is proud to announce a second weekend of Boston area performers appearing in The Jackie Liebergott Black Box Theatre, located in the Paramount Center, the weekend of March 6th and 7th....more

Music from Land's End

In the second of a three concert series, award-winning duo Ariadne Daskalakis, violin and Miri Yampolsky, piano perform the Ten Sonatas for Violin and Piano by Beethoven. Experience the depth of Beethoven's genius and inspiration. In this concert, Sonatas Nos. 1, 2, 6 and 3 will be performed. Tickets at the door on...

In the second of a three concert series, award-winning duo Ariadne Daskalakis, violin and Miri Yampolsky, piano perform the Ten Sonatas for Violin and Piano by Beethoven. Experience...more

The Makanda Project Multiple Percussion Edition

Presented by VISIONS, Inc

March 7, 2015

For this concert the Makanda Project will expand to include three drummers: Yoron Israel, Warren Smith, and Billy Hart. In addition to several pieces from its repertoire of Makanda Ken McIntyre compositions, the group will also play a piece Mr. Smith wrote for Max Roach's M'Boom percussion ensemble, of which he was a founding...

Music from Azerbaijan

For Fargana Qasimova, the passionate Sufi-inspired lyrics of Azerbaijani mugham and spirited songs of the bardic ashiq tradition provided the soundscape of her childhood. Now a consummate vocalist in her own right, Qasimova has developed a distinctive style that builds on the formidable artistic legacy bequeathed to her by her father, the...

Makin' Music: Fun with Mozart & Friends

Join us as we learn how music is put together. -Fun musical activities for children. -Ask questions & see the instruments up close after the concert. -Program designed for children ages 4-8, but all ages are welcome! The concert will feature Bonnie Cochran on flute, Erin Simmons Asbury on clarinet and Sally VanderPloeg on piano. This...

Piano Sonatas of Viktor Ullmann: In Concert and Conversation with Jeanne Golan

Viktor Ullmann (1898-1944) was a leading composer of his generation, active in the Romantic Avant-garde. At the peak of his career, he was interned by the Nazis at the concentration camp in Terezin and later exterminated at Auschwitz. Stirred by Goethe’s maxim, “Live within the moment, live in eternity,” Ullmann wrote seven...

20th Anniversary Celebration

Paul Speidel has been a consistent presence on the Boston music scene for over twenty years, having appeared with such greats as Jay Geils, Duke Robillard, David Maxwell and Patti Page. He and his group are celebrating their time here with a special dinner hour show at the legendary music venue, Johnny D's--not a bad seat in the house and...

Paul Speidel has been a consistent presence on the Boston music scene for over twenty years, having appeared with such greats as Jay Geils, Duke Robillard, David Maxwell and Patti Page. He and his...more